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The “American Dream” has now become a “hallucination,” according to Prof Eric Cheyfitz, the Ernest I White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters

During an event hosted by the Institute for Comparative Modernities on Tuesday, Cheyfitz introduced his most recent book, The Disinformation Age: The Collapse of Liberal Democracy in the United States, which paid particular attention to the Obama Administration, of which Cheyfitz is highly critical

“If I were to sum up the book in one sentence, ” Cheyfitz said, “I would say it is a historical explanation about how and why the United States is still trying to live a narrative, American exceptionalism, that fails to rationalize the state any longer ”

Cheyfitz also said that despite the widespread disapproval of the Democratic and Republican parties, the groups themselves are not the root of the issue

“Their collusion in the militarized corporate hegemony is the problem, and neither of the two parties can address the problem because they are constituted by it,” he said

Obama’s speeches, he said, are classic examples of what Cheyfitz defines as “disinformation,” or the “ rupture of political rhetoric from political reality with fatal results

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In other words, Trump and our current political situation are not, contrary to what many people may think, the causes of disinformation

“Trump is not the problem he is the latest symptom of the problem,” Cheyfitz explained Rather, the country ’ s major issue is the overlapping, “imbricated pair of income inequality and cli-

The capitalist story of the American enterprise, in Cheyfitz’s mind, is a key contributor to the rise of disinformation because many believe capitalism and democracy are synonymous “ This stor y has always confused capitalism with democracy when in fact the two systems are fundamentally at odds,” he said Cheyfitz also stressed the lack of accurate information available to people, which leaves them unable to fight back

“People know they’re poor, but nothing has been put into place for them to join together and fight against this narrative,” he said “That’s disinformation for me ”

When asked what inspired him to write the book, Cheyfitz said he was motivated by the condition that the country has fallen into and the need to write a history that reflected these current conditions

“I am an activist in my work, so I’m concerned with these issues as practical and political and social issues And of

course I work with students here and am concerned about [their] futures ” According to Cheyfitz, the model for a just society and the solution to disinformation can be found in the ways and practices of indigenous peoples

“Here in the juncture of history we are in desperate need of another story, one that answers the question: what is a just society?” The answer, Cheyfitz said, is “ one of extended kinship that has been told in Native American societies for thousands of years ”

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By SHRUTI JUNEJA Sun Staff Writer

Whether there for casual studying, catching a view of the slope at sunset or pulling an all-nighter and watching the sunrise, students in the Uris Librar y Cocktail Lounge have recently noticed that many of the large, green chairs have been replaced by an assortment of new furniture

In particular, Wilcox said the renovation is being undertaken now to address the deferred maintenance needed by updating tired and worn-out furniture They also hope to transform the area into a more accessible, 24/7 study zone

Students React to New Cocktail Lounge Furniture Profs Launch New Course After West Campus Incidents

This furniture is being changed as part of a broader effort to update the lounge and turn it into a more “accessible” study space, according to librarians Wendy Wilcox and Sara Wright

Wright, head of learning, spaces and technology at Mann Librar y, was part of the effort to update Mann and said that they are planning a similar process in Uris this semester

Currently, they are testing out a variety of different furniture options and are simultaneously taking feedback from students before making final purchase decisions, which Wright said is important so that the people who actually use the space can provide their input

Students can write their opinions of the specific furniture pieces on large posters hung up on the cocktail lounge wall The feedback on the posters has been both positive and negative, ranging from “looks different, and I’m impressed with the design” to “ew! What are we? Ikea? kindergarten? JAIL?”

Next week, Wilcox and Wright will review the posters and conduct inter views with students The plan is to implement the changes in the entire space by late summer or early fall, Wright said

“Our strongest emphasis is we actually want to improve accessibility to that space, we want to convert it to a true 24/7 space, ” Wilcox, access ser vices librarian for Olin and Uris Libraries, told The Sun “ There are 24 hour spaces that are open in ILR for ILR students and Mann is for CALS, but this space is for any Cornell student to use, so that’s a priority for us ”

“ There’s this tension between wanting comfortable furniture and maybe not wanting super comfortable furniture in order to stay awake,” Wilcox joked

Although this project focuses specifically on the Cocktail Lounge, Wilcox and Wright said that it may be a starting point for updating other parts of the librar y

“I think this project will sort of kick things off in a way and start staff down that path of thinking about other spaces in the librar y that might be ready or have been ready for a renovation and we just haven’t been able to do it yet, ”

Wright said

“[For] A D White Hall, we really have to respect the histor y of that space, so we ’ re much more limited in the furnishings we can be able to look at, ” she added “But in the cocktail lounge we have flexibility in doing this and figure out what works best for people ”

Birdwatchers Continue Global Event That Hatched at Cornell

By SAMUEL

Sun Staff Writer

Eyes will soon turn to the sky for the annual Great Backyard Bird Count, a global bird census initially launched by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology

The GBBC will be taking place for the 21st time starting this Friday, giving amateur enthusiasts across the world an opportunity to add their input to the professional study of birds and contribute to the study of bird migration patterns, according to Forbes

Ithaca’s Sapsucker Woods is home to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, a global leader in the appreciation and conservation of birds and the launcher of GBBC

The lab is also home to the eBird program project team headed by Marshall Iliff grad

“The GBBC was the first bird counting effort to make use of the internet for

data collection back in 1999 Its early successes spawned eBird, a year-round ongoing count for birdwatchers worldwide to enter birds they see anytime, anywhere,” Iliff told The Sun in an email

According to Cornell’s Lab of Ornithology, eBird is a mobile app and online checklist that allows users to keep track of the birds they encounter while also reporting their findings to a central database The lab, along with other educators and conservationists across the world, uses this data to better aim their research at understanding bird populations and migration patterns

“For the birdwatcher, eBird is the best way to track your personal sightings,” Iliff said

This type of widespread data collection has been particularly useful in the study of how climate change is currently affecting the migration patterns of certain birds

“Many species are declining and struggling to adapt to a changing world,” Iliff explained “ With birdwatchers around the world contributing to eBird and the GBBC, we can monitor these changes and understand how birds are responding and hopefully make plans to better protect them and ensure their survival into the future ”

The first GBBC in 1998 attracted around 13,000 participants from the United States and Canada, as reported by Forbes Nineteen years later, in February 2017, 200,000 bird watchers from over 100 countries reported more than half of the world’s known species

“Almost everyone involved is a data contributor we'll all be out locally reporting birds from our own backyards,” Iliff said

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Two Cornell professors, including Prof Bill Gaskins, art, who calls himself “ a recovering white supremacist, as well as sexist and homophobic” in a culture that is “ not yet post-racial, post-sexist or post-queer, ” are leading an initiative seeking to address difficult issues of race and oppression on campus and beyond

Gaskins and Prof Shorna Allred, natural resources, lead an hourlong discussion each Tuesday centered around academic and artistic works by people of color Though the conversation usually begins with the specific elements of each piece, the seminar often quickly spirals into the societal implications of oppression, as well as each student’s experience with it

Both professors acknowledged that this class and its associated project the “Where do we go from here?” initiative were conceived this semester as a response to the many discriminatory actions they have witnessed on campus

“It was a response to the incidents of racial harassment that took place last semester directed at the Latino Studies Center, the young man who was assaulted by the fraternity and the call from the Black Students United asking faculty to play a greater role in raising the literacies of students about race-based structural inequalities in our classrooms,” Gaskins said Allred, the Alice Cook House resident professor, also pointed out that many of these incidents occurred within the West Campus residence halls

“We had several incidents on West Campus too the anti-Semitic posters and the Becker House dinner So we had these issues and we were really trying to respond to how students were experiencing that,” she said “We’re really trying to do this where students live ”

The students in the class are encouraged to speak about their own experiences in response to the works they study as well as their classmates ’ ideas

Jordan Kelly ’20, a student in the class, elaborated on her perspective seeing her peers come to terms with these issues

“It’s even interesting as a woman of color taking this class, seeing other classmates come to this realization that this is the reality of this sort of interaction,” Kelly told The Sun “Seeing people become more aware [of the oppression around them] is also really interesting ”

Anna Warfield ’18 also said that the small size of the class and the deep subject matter is conducive to revealing each person ’ s insights on the issues they discuss

“[Seminars] hold people on a higher accountability, and I feel like that’s what this class does You’re talking about intense subject matter, and you ’ re asking people to come to a class with so few others you have to participate, ” she said

Gaskins and Allred hope that by engaging students in thought at the places they live, they can inspire more students to take action against the discrimination they may encounter within their communities and beyond

“I want [students] to understand that these problems they’re critical of whether it’s what’s going on in Washington or what’s happening on Main Street they’re responsible for fixing it,” Gaskins said

Allred said that she plans for the class to become a regular course offering in later years, and hopes that it will help encourage discourse surrounding race and power on campus

“The discrimination, it’s directed at all of us it’s all of us that are affected when somebody shouts ‘build a wall,’ or when someone is assaulted based on the color of their skin,” she said “We really wanted to respond as faculty to this, and show that we hear you, we care, and we need to do something about it ”

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Black Panther hits theaters ever yw h e re t o m o r r ow T h e b u z z around the movie is electric, as evidenced by its formidable social media presence, record-breaking box office projections and ubiquity in the thinkpiece realm Though the reviews are glowing, what seems to be propelling this global phenomenon is not the movie itself, but its materiality to the world as it is today

In the comic book world, the word “ retcon ” is a common portmanteau for “retroactive continuity ” It refers to the reframing of past events to ser ve a current plot need For example, TV shows often retcon characters’ backstories in order to explain their present actions

The first retcon in the Black Panther canon was not a backstor y written into the comics, but one unintentionally provided by a real-world twist of fate Just a year after the release of Black Panther’s first appearance in 1966, the revolutionar y party of the same name was formed; by this remarkable fortuity, Mar vel’s first black superhero suddenly stumbled into symbolizing Black Power Tomorrow, the Black Panther film will be released to a second serendipitous real-world retcon This movie, which began development in the early ’90s, will make its debut in Trump’s America The film did not begin as a response to this particular cultural moment, but the zeitgeist has retconned it into being exactly that

A few years ago, the film would have ser ved to bolster the false narrative of p o s t - r a c i a l i s m , u n d e r s c o r i n g Ob a m a ’ s myth: they accept us Now, however, at a time when our government spends its days shouting from the rooftops about how much they hate black and brown people, Panther is a delightfully blunt reply: we don’t care

A t t h e r i s k o f s t re t c h i n g t h i s metaphor too far, Ryan Coogler’s Black

The Inferiority Complex

Cornell professors really hype us up, ” said one of my friends after a psychology lecture in which our professor spent the last 20 minutes of class telling us how incredibly “brilliant” we all were, and how “blown away ” he was by our potential I don’t even really remember what prompted him to go on this complimentar y rant One minute we were talking about the psychology of dreams, and the next thing I kne w, we were being showered with compliments by a professor a hundred times more accomplished than anyone else in the room

than ever before But in my opinion, what plays a bigger role is that deep down, many of us don’t believe we belong here

In my first year here, I found myself looking up transfer applications ever y fe w months because I genuinely didn’t think I was smar t enough to study at Cornell Surely, the admissions committee must have made a mistake I felt like I wasn ’ t good enough at anything while ever yone around me was good at ever ything

But then, in my sophomore year, I star ted working as a writing tutor If I’m being completely honest, I was initially quite skeptical about why any student at C o r n e l l w o u l d n e e d a w r i t i n g t u t o r Wasn’t it their impeccable personal statements that got them here in the first place?

Soon enough, however, I discovered that this wasn ’ t the case at all I remember one par ticular student that I worked with who, as soon as I told him I was a premed, proceeded to brag about how he had gotten an A in organic chemistr y As someone who only understood about 20 percent of the material in orgo, I was infuriated by his statement If he was so smar t, why was he coming to me for help?

Panther is, itself, a retcon It demands the viewer reconsider ever ything they know about Africa and her diaspora by introducing us to a version of events in which neither has encountered whiteness

Chadwick Boseman, who plays the titular role, carefully crafted his quasi-

A f r i c a n a c c e n t , e x p l a i n i n g t h a t a European one “would [convey] a white supremacist idea” of what it means to be educated or to be royal We are asked to imagine: what if “elite” didn’t mean “white?”

Dark-skinned black women, typically relegated by Hollywood to roles as the nurturing matron or the comic relief (if they are cast at all), here portray the Dora Milaje, the brave and beautiful protectors of Wakanda We are asked to imagine: what if we didn’t see the world through the white male gaze?

Wakanda, Panther’ s primar y setting, is a technologically superior African society possessing rich natural resources; the film arguably depicts the most vivid vision of Afrofuturism in cinematic histor y We are asked to imagine: what if our and our ancestors ’ land had never been stolen?

Histor y is the ultimate retcon the victors are the authors so events and figures that fit the desired narrative are highlighted, while those that don’t are erased The histories of the marginalized have historically been told only if they ser ve the dominant narrative Imagining an alternate histor y allows us to see ourselves not as supporting characters but as protagonists in our own right Black Panther resonates so deeply because in its universe, the erased have written themselves a new stor y

Jade Pinero is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences She can be

While it may seem random, I’ve found that this is quite a common theme in a lot of classes at Cornell As a freshman, I remember being told in ever y introductor y lecture that we were all “extremely bright” and “driven” students, and I really believed it

In fact, I think that when many of us first come to Cornell, we are still reeling from the shock of being accepted into a school that falls under the elite, glittering title of the Ivy League We think that we must be pretty intelligent to be the only ones in our high school friend group to go to a fancy, world-renowned school Ever ything at Cornell is exciting and stimulating and you can ’ t wait to be successful

And then you go through your first round of prelims

Jokes aside, I’m willing to argue that ever y student at Cornell has faced that sinking feeling that they are not as capable as they once thought they were That maybe, just maybe, their dreams and aspirations are too big, too unrealistic and too ambitious

Suddenly, your brain begins qualifying professors’ remarks about how smar t you are with what I like to call “ Yeah, but ” statements:

“ Yeah, I’m smar t, but so-and-so is smar ter ”

“ Yeah, I’m smar t but so is ever yone else applying to medical school ”

“ Yeah, I’m smar t but Har vard still rejected me!”

Ironically, it takes getting into an Ivy League for many of us to stop being confident in our abilities

Undoubtedly, I think that par t of this is because when we come to Cornell, we suddenly find ourselves surrounded by people more determined and competitive

But then, I read his essay While I don’t condone making fun of tutees ’ writing, I will do so solely because I have a point to make:

His writing was horrible

And this delighted me Not because I was spiteful and wanted to see him fail I helped him to develop a beautiful paper than he ended up getting an A on but

because I found that I had a strength that he didn’t

As cheesy as it sounds, I think that in this moment I had the realization that nobody is good at ever ything, but ever ybody is good at something Par t of the perilous journey through our four years at Cornell is recognizing our weaknesses, but also discovering our strengths I think that we are ver y quick at doing the former, but too often we overlook the latter It’s easy to feel painfully average at Cornell, but ever ybody has their “horrible essay ” moment; a moment where you finally begin crediting yourself for being great at something, even though you aren ’ t good at ever ything

The Sun Regrets This Error

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Six days into the spring semester, founding dean of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business Soumitra Dutta resigned, after a little more than a year and a half in the post Weeks later, still not a word from Cornell on the reason A Sun reporter even went to the former dean’s home to find some answers, to no avail Of course, as a private nonprofit institution, Cornell has no legal obligation to be transparent about personnel movements A stench of mismanagement, however, stinks to high heaven Most, including myself, had initial doubts about the endeavour As the dean’s departure and that of his deputy simply, the SC Johnson College of Business is running into problems Here are some of my misgivings about the project

Matthew Lam | The Despatch Box

To begin with, the name is unfortunate Right out of the gate, the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business rings clunky and awkward to my ears and, I’m sure, to those of business leaders, students and H R recruiters

Nothing is wrong with “Johnson,” which honors a generous family of Cornellians Rather, the “College of Business” attachment sullies the initiative When I first heard of the project, I immediately associated it with “business colleges,” archaic secretary schools in the ’50s and ’60s where people learned typewriting and shorthand

A simple Google search confirms my suspicion A business college, according to Wikipedia is a “school that provides education above the high school level but could not be compared to that of a traditional university business colleges typically train the student for a specific vocational aspect, usually clerical tasks such as typing, stenography or simple bookkeeping ”

Perhaps I had remembered the term from reading Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie Amanda, matriarch of the Wingfields, had registered her daughter at a business college so she could become a secretary: “AMANDA: No, dear, you go in front and study your typewriter chart Or practise your shorthand I put her in business college a dismal failure!” Cornell’s business schools obviously do much more, but this new

Ilove Valentine’s day

I’m sorr y I’m one of those

But I adore being a little self-pitying if even for just a day

I cherish the opportunity to complain about being lonely

And I love pink shit

I’m a bit romantic, too Maybe a lot romantic I’ve written at least one short stor y about ever yone I’ve ever had a crush on, and I have whole anthologies on people I’ve never met This might be a bit of a n ov e r s h a r e , b u t i t ’ s t h e d a y a f t e r Valentine’s day, and I’m feeling a little greedy I love to talk about love Maybe that’s why I love Valentine’s day

I also think love is ever yone ’ s favorite phobia Especially here, at Cornell; and on ever y college campus, but this is the one I know best And I know that shaky, sick stomach feeling we get when we talk

t o s o m e o n e - w e - t h i n k - w e - c o u l d - m a y b elove

Maybe it’s the vulnerability, or the unachievability of it all because ever yone loves to win and when you ’ re in love, well,

name fails to reflect it and even emanates connotations of low quality

One of the main goals of this project was to push our business offerings into the ranks of Wharton, Stern, Harvard, etc So why did we not take an obvious page from their books?

They are all business schools: Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania New York University Leonard N Stern School of Business Harvard Business School The reason is probably because of a technicality: our new program, being a combination of three schools, would grant multiple degrees, rather than a single business degree, but honestly, no one cares Business students want to put reputable, elegant names on their resumes and recruiters want to recognize them while ing the The label be trivial, all good s students : H R h r o w r e s u m

with mis-

in the trash In the corporate world, the stakes are high Details matter

Even more troubling is the project’s structure No one knows what it is Not Cornell students, professors, and certainly not a corporate recruiter who sits in New York, Boston or Chicago Even employees of the combined college I’ve spoken to don’t fully understand what it is

To begin with, there is an obvious logical inconsistency Johnson, Dyson and hotel are combined in a “College of Business ” But as Provost Michael Kotlikoff and Dutta have insisted, they remain distinct entities This logical discrepancy leads to much confusion

So are they together or separate entities? What about the 14 colleges that make up the University? So, with this new college that combines the three, will there officially now be 14 - 3 + 1 = 12 colleges? But Cornell’s website still says it has 14 colleges

Furthermore, what is it supposed to do? The purported major advantage of the college brings is a bridging of fractured programs by connecting faculty and research within the three schools A noble task, but one that could have been accomplished for perhaps less than $150 million and without a new college Maybe a “Cornell Business Collective” or “Connection” program where faculty and students can network, or the

there’s really no winning I’ve been there, m i d - c o n v e r s a t i o n w i t h s o m e o n e y o u know better than you want to believe, and it’s like sea sickness It sweeps over you And it should be recklessly exciting but instead it’s painstakingly uncomfortable And it usually makes me want to walk away: from the conversation, or from the moment, or from the person

We do this because love goes against all of our instincts It is unsafe and unwilling to cooperate, and we are all strong, ambitious students with goals And goals don’t play nice with the rules of monogamous relationships, and we really aren ’ t sure we want kids, anyway given the state of the world and whoa, how did this get so out of hand? We haven’t even had a first date yet

I don’t mean to say that I fall in love often because I really don’t But I do feel like I meet someone-who-I-could-love all

t h e t i m e Ev e r y d a y, a l m o s t A n d i t becomes this game of chutes and ladders, missed connections all of us complaining about our collective loneliness This is the part of love I don’t like to talk about

Registrar combining overlapping classes would have done the trick Instead, with this new college-esque entity, they have hired a slew of deans and staff and built an entirely new office in the middle of Collegetown

In response to Dutta’s resignation, Prof Emeritus William Lesser, the former Susan Eckert Lynch Professor in Science and Business, commented that the new college’s finances are “ suspect, ” with insufficient revenue Low revenue That’s not quite surprising, because the college of business is not really a college in its own right, it does not admit students and charge them tuition Instead, hotel, Dyson (within the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences) and Johnson still do, and I would wager that they have been loath in sharing their revenues with this nascent, strange entity

Most problematic of all is the college of business’ lack of direction from the start This time last year, Provost Kotlikoff proposed that step one in the project would be for the Board of Trustees to create “ an empty vessel” and step two would be for students, faculty and alumni to fill in its details We don’t have time for “ empty vessels ” Wharton and Stern are light-years ahead in reputation, and to this day, the project’s leadership has been as silent on its direction as it has been on Dutta’s resignation Quite frankly, the provost ’ s proposal sounds like that of a Shark Tank contestant or an unscrupulous startup begging for venture capital funds Take the money; we’ll figure it out later

It pains me to publically castigate our new business program Cornell, like any other decent university, should offer quality business education And we do Dyson, hotel and Johnson are reputable, distinct programs, with strong alumni bases built over decades But seeing our new business college meandering around as an “ empty vessel” like the Ghost of Hamlet’s father and having its founding dean suddenly resign, I cannot help but voice my criticisms as a concerned Cornellian Dutta’s resignation is a sign of the initiative’s complications In turn, the SC Johnson College of Business’ ills are symptoms of Cornell’s strange expansionist mantra that has no subtlety of thought and design If you’d entertain one last business metaphor, we are perhaps turning into the GE of higher education: bloated and devoid of direction At the naming ceremony of the business college last year, interim President Hunter R Rawlings III touted that it will help “develop synergies among the three schools ” But buzzwords can only get us so far

because it feels a bit condescending I don’t like to think about the parts of love we look away form Be it self-sabotaging or a savior’s mentality, we do this to ourselves Maybe not all f I know some of this wer ly in love this Wednesd I think I, at least, was ing my tongue, taki time texting back, tr y

b e u n i n t e re s t e d It’s

e n o u g h t o a p p e a r u n i n t e r e s

o u really have to feel l i k e y o u c o u l d n ’ t care less

to feel like that about something, but so scar y to feel like that about someone? Maybe it’s because science, or The Bible, or short stories have never stabbed i h back, or lied to us, or cheated

D o y o u e v e r h e a r s o m e o n e t a l k unabashedly about what they care about and it feels so pure, like you just came up for air after swimming through a clear lake? And you question how anyone could love like that, if you could love or be loved like that It’s the way my parents talk about science, or the way my best friend talks about her religion, or the way I explain my newest writing project I wonder, why does it feel so good and exciting

on us, or liked our best friend better all along I think if the only thing standing between us and being excited about love is trust, well, we should sign ourselves back up Here’s to being ready to be hurt, again Happy Valentine’s Day

Cornell Dining Versus the Flu

By MIKAYLA KUYKENDALL Sun Staff Writer

We can all hear it the coughing, snee zing, nose-blowing and other bodily sounds that echo through lecture halls during the winter in Ithaca It’s flu

s e a s o n , a n d t h e r e i s n o t h i n g

worse than tr ying to get through your home work with a r unny nose and sore throat There’s an old saying that advises the sick to “feed a cold and star ve a fever” if they want to recover

According to WebMD, this isn’t completely correct When you ’ re sick, you should eat when you have an appetite and make sure

t o s t a y h y d r a t e d So m e t i m e s ,

t h i s s e e m s l i k e a n i m p o s s i b l e feat, so I have compiled a list of foods to eat when you ’ re feeling under the weather and where

y o u c a n f i n d t h e m i n

Collegetown and on campus

Soups, fr uit, oatmeal, yogur t and salmon are among the best foods to eat when you ’ re sick

Soup helps keep you hydrated; fr uit has lots of vitamins and minerals; oatmeal is plain and easy to eat; yogur t soothes a sore throat and salmon helps fight inflammation

C o l l e g e t o w n h a s a n a b u ndance of places with these foods

O i s h i i B o w l , V i e t n a m

Restaurant and Cafe Pacific all ser ve ramen and other soups that have chicken broth to soothe a congested chest

a n d k e e p y o u w e l l h y d r a t e d without making

y o u r s t o m a c h feel queasy The Kuay Teow Gai

Toon at Oishii Bowl is like a

Ja p a n e s e t a k e

o n c h i c k e n n o o d l e s o u p , which is what I e a t e v e r y t

a l l y offers a variety of fr uit juices and ginger ale (which my mother swears is the cure for ever ything)

w h i c h

body with much-needed nutrients but also settle your stomach CTB offers pre-packaged yogur t par faits in their grab-ngo section and s

and an antioxi-

light and fr uity, making it comfor ting even when I’m sick

On-campus eateries and cafes also offer a multitude of “sick foods ” From vegetable ste w to beef minestrone to clam chowder, soup in all its forms and manifestations is offered at all Cornell cafes They also always have multiple types of Tazo tea (either hot or cold) that will also soothe your throat while keeping you hydrated Mar tha’s, the cafe in Mar tha Va

wide variety of fr uits, vegetables

a

packed with vitamins and minerals If a salad seems like too much to get down, Mar tha’s also ser ves flatbreads that may be a little easier on your stomach

The margherita flatbread is a lighter version of a pizza and equally delicious

M a n n d i b l e s , t h e c a f

n

Mann Librar y, offers smoothies and bagels I recommend getting any of the toasted bagels with peanut butter if your stomach is e s p

don’t like jellies, jams or anything similar, but a toasted plain bagel with peanut butter and apricot jelly from Manndibles goes per fectly with your morning dose of cold meds

Bus Stop Bagels also ser ves all kinds of bagels and bagel sandwiches that will be easy to eat and give your body energy to k e e p f i g h t

h i l e w a l k i n g u p h i l l i n

snow

Mac’s Cafe in the Statler Hotel ser ves both salads and smoothies if you really want to give your immune system a boost

A c c o r d i n g t o Fa c e b o o k revie ws of the Temple of Zeus in Klarman Hall, the best soup to get is the curr y sweet pea or Thai carrot with one of the Temple’s fresh rolls

And, of course, Trillium has anything any student sick or not could ever want, including a simple bowl of chicken broth

you ’ re sick Eating spicy foods

C U E a t s : A N e w I d e a f o r a n O l d S y s t e m

By ALEXANDRA FOWLER

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h i s a p p i s n ow b e i n g d ow n l o a d e d by t h e

C o r n e l l c o m m u n i t y, re c e i v i n g re v i e w s a n d g a i n i n g t r a c t i o n W h e n a s k e d a b o u t p o t e n t i a l c o m p e t i -

t i o n w i t h t h e E a t e r y a p p, Ba n g n o t e d t h a t h e d o e s n o t s e e h i s a p p a s c o m p e t it i o n b u t a s s i m p l y a n o t h e r a p p w i t h a f e at u re t h a t t h e E a t e r y a p p d o e s n o t c u r re n tl y h a ve He b e l i e ve s t h a t t h e p ro b l e m h e i s s o l v i n g i s o n e t h a t m a n y p e o p l e i n t h e

C o r n e l l c o m m u n i t y h a ve

To t e s t i t o u t , I s e a rc h e d f o r “ c h i c k e n ”

o n t h e a p p Wi t h i n s e c o n d s “ c h i c k e n ”

a p p e a re d o n m y f a vo r i t e s w i t h t w o i c o n s i n d i c a t i n g i t w a s a va i l a b l e i n a d i n i n g

In the future, Bang hopes to bring the app to different universities and build out some of the features He is taking it stepby-step and hoping to grow his user base through word of mouth Bang is a testament to how students are not only striving to create solutions to ever yday problems that we all may have, but also doing it in an innovative and exciting way

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Freed at Last! It’s Finally Over

BY NICK SMITH Sun Staff Writer

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However, when faced with a tr uly middle of the road film, I’m faced with a dilemma If I like it too much, I ll lose credibility as a critic ” On the other hand, if I like it too little I get told I’m being negative for the sake of being negative For tunately for you and I, Fifty Shades Freed isn’t one of those cases this movie sucks

I g o t t o re v i e w Fi f t y Sh a d e s Da rk e r a ro u n d t h i s t i m e l a s t ye a r a n d i t s e e m s t h a t b e t we e n t h e n a n d n ow, t h e m ov i e h a s n ’ t m a d e a n i n s c h o f p ro g re s s C h i e f a m o n g m y i s s u e s w i t h t h e f r a n c h i s e ’ s p e n u l t i m a t e i n s t a l l a t i o n i s j u s t h o w l i t t l e a g e n c y A n a s t a s i a St e e l e ( Da k o t a Jo h n s o n ) i s w r i tt e n w i t h T h ro u g h t w o m ov i e s p r i m a r i l y t a r g e t e d a t a f e m a l e d e m o g r a p h i c , s h e a l m o s t e n t i r e l y e x i s t e d t o c o m p l i m e n t m e n In t h e f i r s t f i l m , A n a s t a s i a a l l ow s h e r s e l f t o b e c o m e s e d u c e d by a m y s t e r i o u s m a n c l e a r l y b e s e t by s o m e s e x u a l d e m o n s T h a t , I c a n f o r g i ve i t ’ s t h e w h o l e f a n t a s y t h i s f r a n c h i s e ’ s a l l u r e i s p r e d i c a t e d u p o n

Howe ve r, i n t h e s e c o n d f i l m o u r “ h e ro i n e ” a l l ow s h e r s e l f t o b e b o u g h t a n d c o a xe d

b a c k i n t o a c l e a r l y t ox i c s i t u a t i o n by a m a n w h o i s w h e n yo u s t r i p a w a y t h e s m o ld e r i n g i n t r i g u e a n d Ja m i e Do r n a n ’ s d e l ic i o u s a b d o m i n a l m u s c l e s a s t a l k e r A n d w e h a v e t o w a t c h o u r m a i n c h a r a c t e r re p e a t e d l y g i ve i n t o h i s e ve r y p e r ve r s e w i s h ! T h e s e m ov i e s a re j u s t t h e o p p o s i t e o f e m p owe r i n g T h e n e w m o v i e s t i t l e , F i f t y S h a d e s Fre e d , l e d m e t o b e l i e ve

Kurt Riley ’16 just released a new single for Valentine’s Day

“Love is in My Heart” represents the importance of love to Riley, as well as his musical inspirations Riley’s performances feature bright letters spelling out his name, which is ver y similar to the way that The Killers one of his biggest musical inspirations tend to put a K on the stage when they perform Additionally, just as The Killers do on holiday season, Riley has released a single today However, this does not mean that Riley is simply following what The Killers do In fact, Riley’s music is original and passionate He does not adhere to a

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n u a n c e a n d d e t a i l i n t o t h e b o o k s t h a n t h e m ov i e s ’ a d u e i n c e s c o u l d s t o m a c h T h e f i n a l b o o k , o n w h i c h t h i s n e w f i l m i s b a s e d , c o m e s i n a t 5 9 2 p a g e s , i n w h i c h I ’ m s u re i n t r i c a t e c h a r a c t e r i z a t i o n s a n d p l o t l i n e s a re s a t i s f a ct o r i l y d e ve l o p e d Un f o r t u n a t e l y, t h e n e w m ov i e p l a y s l i k e a f r a n t i c a l l y w r i t t e n s u m m a r y I ’ m s u re t h e b o o k c o u l d h a n d l e s e t t i n g u p a n d re s o l v i n g m a r r i a g e , w o r k p l a c e , j e a l o u s y, v a c a t i o n , p re g n a n c y, h o s t a g e c r i s i s , m e d i c a l e m e rg e n c y a n d l o n g - l o s t b r o t h e r s t o r y l i n e s , w h e re a s a t w o - h o u r l o n g m ov i e d e f i n i t e l y c a n n o t Ma y b e i f I d re a d t h e b o o k s I c o u l d s i t i n t h e t h e a t e r a n d b e p l e a s a n t l y s u r p r i s e d w h e n e ve r t h e s c re e n w r i t e r s m a d e t i m e f o r

o n e o f m y f a vo r i t e s c e n e s , b u t a s s o m e o n e j u d g i n g t h i s f r a n c h i s e s o l e l y o n t h e c i n em a t i c a d a p t a t i o n s , I ’ m l e f t u t t e r l y b e w i ld e re d On t o p o f t h a t , Fre e d h a d t h e b a l l s

single genre or style

“Love is in My Heart” is a blend of glam rock and ’80s pop, featuring synthesizers and a laidback beat Riley’s slow and sustained vocals, along with the keyboards, are what give the song an ’80s feeling

Turn off your phone, let’s be alone tonight” is the first line

R i l e y s i n g s “ L ov e i s i n My Heart” is about appreciating not just someone, but the idea of love The song feels the way an ’80s prom would were it to take place today However, there isn’t anything tacky or fake about it In fact, Riley has taken iconic sounds from the ’80s and com-

t o i n c l u d e a m u l t i - m i n u t e f l a s h b a c k s e q u e n c e o f C h r i s t i a n a n d A n a s t a s i a ’ s re l a -

t i o n s h i p t h a t f e a t u re d c l i p s f ro m t h e m ov i e I w a s c u r re n t l y w a t c h i n g ! T h e p o s i t i ve c h a r a c t e r a rc I s o f o o l i s h l y h o p e d we’d s e e f o r A n a s t a s i a i s p a s s e d ove r f o r a n u n f u l f i l l i n g s e r i e s o f s m a l l m o m e n t s i n w h i c h t h e m ov i e t r i e s t o s h ow u s t h a t s h e ’ s b e c o m e w h a t , s p u n k y ? Sh e ’ s e ve r s o s l i g h t l y m o r e c o m f o r t a b l e “d e f y i n g ”

C h r i s t i a n ? W h o a ! Sh e c a n d r i ve a f a n c y c a r

s l i g h t l y m o re c o m p e t e n t l y t h a n h e t h o u g h t s h e c o u l d ? A m a z i n g ! Sh e u s e s h e r s a f e w o rd d u r i n g a s e s s i o n i n t h e B D S M p l a y ro o m ? I

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Riley’s bold eyeliner that goes from the bottom of his eyes to his eyebrows, his brown leather jacket and his vocal style give him a David Bowie-esque glam rock vibe that mixes surprisingly well with the music he’s singing

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Instead, his music is more like a blended smoothie As an artist who began performing in high

school, Riley demonstrates that he’s no stranger to making music or performing, as well as showcasing his maturity

“Love is in My Heart” is a heartfelt, honest song that was carefully put together, and the music video displays Riley’s artistic sense and performance style Riley is currently working on his fourth album to be released later this year, and his next performance will take place March 10 at The Nines

Viri Garcia is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences She can be reached at vgarcia@cornellsun com

BY RACHEL MATTESSICHE Sun Contrbutor

Have you ever seen one of those movies that is so stupid that it’s actually good? I would say that that is probably the most accurate way to describe Game Night It was really a whirlwind I laughed, I was scared and I was definitely confused I’m pretty sure I even said, “wait, what?” out loud a couple of times

The movie star ts with a bar scene where two overly competitive 20-somethings, Max ( Jason Bateman) and Annie (Rachel McAdams), fall in love (never before seen plotline, right?) Flash for ward and the couple is hosting one of their weekly game nights As per usual, the couple has to avoid their awkward, slightly off-putting, police officer neighbor who always wants to par ticipate in game night

This game night is special, however, because Max’s more successful, better-looking brother, Brooks (Kyle Chandler), is in town and plans to attend The night went on as a usual game night would (some charades, the typical rivalries and, of course, some embarrassing sibling stories) and at the end of the night, Brooks asks if he could host game night at his place the following week

The the cre w agrees and a week later are all together again, this time drinking some champagne and listening to the ne w r ules of game night Brooks tells the group that someone will be kidnapped and that the first team to solve the myster y will win a red Sting Ray car Eventually, B r o o k s h i m s e l f i s k i d n a p p e d a n d t h e g a m e b e g i n s

However, the group shor tly realizes that this is not just a game and that the kidnapping was, in fact, reality Before you know it, the whole night turns from fun to frightening and you have no idea what is real and what is staged

To be honest, the entire film was extremely unrealistic and random I consistently questioned how the group miraculously escapes a situation or how Max gets shot in the arm and carries along as if he had gotten a light scrape At one point, Max even tries out a move that he had learned from watching a James Bond movie and it worked

There was also a consistent connection to the audience throughout the movie It was kind of like going through the confusing experience together I felt like we were all asking ourselves questions like, “is this still a set-up game

or is this actually real? Did that character actually get shot?” Was the celebrity that Michelle (Kylie Bunbur y) slept with actually Bill Nye? I kept finding myself wanting to tap the person in front of me to ask what he thought was really going on I was constantly changing my mind and questioning what was reality, like the funny, overly dramatic rendition of the reality paradox in Inception

On a positive note,, there were a lot of really funny oneliners that constantly had me laughing out loud It was dumb at times, which made the movie even better, and I laughed even harder Additionally, the cast was stacked Lamorne Morris, who plays Winston Bishop in New Girl, was consistently hilarious and I had a soft spot for Kyle Chandler, who plays Coach Eric Taylor in Friday Night Lights, and wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt from the moment he drove up to Max and Annie’s house Throughout the movie, I was rooting for the characters as they went through this abnormal game night, which kept me curious and engaged

In the end, the movie came full circle, which was almost symbolic of my feelings I had high hopes from watching the trailer (which gives way too much away You can ’ t tell me all of your funniest lines before I even buy a ticket) which turned into a rollercoaster of opinions that rapidly fluctuated throughout the movie But, finally, I rever ted back to the optimistic opinion that I once had because ever ything somehow came together

Overall, I would say that I felt positive ambivalence There was a question that asked if I would recommend the movie to a friend on a sur vey I took for Cornell Cinema at the end of the movie I thought about my answer for a bit and eventually chose “ yes ” I’m not really sure why I chose yes, but there was just something about it maybe the lovable characters or just the grandiose, unrealistic aspect of it all that still makes me smirk when thinking about it

Rachel Mattessiche is a sophomore in the college of Human Ecology She can be reached at rjm463@cornell edu

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Robert S Harrison ’76, chair of the board of trustees, has not responded to multiple requests for comment

H Fisk Johnson ’79, the CEO of SC Johnson who affixed his name to the college with a $150

involved in the decision, a vice president for his company told The Sun

Pollack said she, Kolikoff and other administrators all continue to support the business college

schools was “bumpy,” she said, noting that it occurred before she

April, but said the creation of the college “will in the long r un prove to be a really good thing ” She said the business college has recently “completed some outstanding hires” from colleges

University of Michigan, adding

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provost ’ s unexpected announcement, Dutta gave no indication that he was planning to resign, speaking at alumni gatherings in San Francisco and New York

Dutta, who earned his Ph D in 1990 from UC Berkeley and ser ved as an administrator and professor at INSEAD in France from 1989 to 2012, has continued to share his expertise around the world in recent days

He responded to Twitter users ’ questions about artificial intelligence on Friday during a forum hosted hosted by an Indian techn

Sunday, Dutta sat on a panel in Dubai, where he discussed the future of the health industr y at the World Government Summit, according to The National, an English-language newspaper in the United Arab Emirates

Girisha Arora ’20 contributed reporting to this article

Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs can be reached at nbogel-burroughs@cornellsun com

‘Three of Anything’: Red Poised for Another NCAA Run

By SMITA NALLURI Sun Staff Writer

No strangers to hard work, Cornell women ’ s lacrosse players push through grueling workouts by motivating each other with the phrase “three of anything ”

Three more reps? Three more pull-ups? Three more sprints?

No problem for the squad that has earned consecutive regular season Ivy championships and second round NCAA tournament berths Just as they take each rep as it comes during workouts, the team looks to take each season as it comes to secure Cornell’s spot on the national stage yet again

Red remains in capable hands as players rise to the occasion to fill the role of their predecessors

“Cornell’s Class of 2017 was a terrific group, and they left a strong legacy,” Graap said “Though we graduated seven in May, we had seven juniors right behind them learning the ropes Our current senior class has really stepped up their leadership to make for a smooth transition ”

At the helm of that strong leadership effort are three captains: senior midfielders Ida Farinholt and Taylor Reed and junior attacker Sarah Phillips

“It’s up to the people who [last year ’ s seniors] have mentored to step up and take those [leadership] roles on and not just be the interior role players,” s said

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“I love and care about Max so much,” Gabe said “I just want so badly for him to accomplish the things that he wants to accomplish for him, it’s not about me ”

The two-time national champion has found it mentally more difficult to watch from the corner than to compete on the nation’s biggest stage

“I definitely get more butterflies from being a coach than a competitor,” Gabe said “You’d think it would be the opposite When you care about these guys so much and when your brother’s out there, you wrestle with them in the corner ”

Max has unwavering emotional support that most young grapplers do not have the privilege of receiving when starting their collegiate wrestling careers On top of that, Max has the opportunity to learn a thing or two about wrestling from his coach

“There is nobody who knows more about winning at the 184-pound weight class in college than the guy I’ve got at my disposal here,” Max said “[I try] to use him for the details, his expertise I am going to wrestle a lot of the same guys he wrestled, he knows what they do, and the things I need to do in order to be successful ”

The support from Gabe and the rest of the team is paying off tremendously Max is ranked 11th in the nation at 184 pounds and climbing The freshman continues to win match after match for Cornell, offering the program high hopes for the remainder of the season and the years to come

Max has made a name for himself, and with many more matches left to wrestle for the Red

It’s no longer “Gabe Dean’s little brother”; it’s Max Dean

Jack Kantor can be reached at jkantor@cornellsun com

e Red retains its second-leading scorer 2017 in Phillips, three of its top five playdraw controls Reed, Farinholt and r defender Hannah O’Reilly and three of its top five players for ground balls in Reed, O’Reilly and senior midfielder

Joey Coffy

Additionally, Cornell welcomes a strong freshman class to the team this year

“[The freshmen] have already been thrown in with us, ” Farinholt said “And a lot of them have taken roles and started early and done well with it, which has ed us a lot to fill the gaps from last year ” Reed said the rookies will be primed to tribute on the field right away

“One of things we ’ ve tried to do this year is to take down the hierarchy, because the freshmen will be out on the field contributing the same just as a senior will,” Reed said “We’ve changed a lot of our team dynamics to create that equality that we want to see on the field ”

Coming off two successful seasons, the Red is neither intimidated by the shoes it has to fill nor is it content to rest on its laurels it is hungry for a chance at redemption

“The majority of the games we lost [last season] were really close,” Farinholt said “So we know we can go really far and do really well ”

“We don’t want to use [the past two years ’ success] as a benchmark,” Phillips said “We want to go past that A national championship is something we should be talking about [The coaching staff ] is coaching us and teaching us everyday to be national champions and we should be practicing like that everyday ”

A guiding tenet for the team in its quest for success this year is to “ come to compete ”

“Anything we do in the weight room, on the field, in practice we strive to come to compete, ” Reed said “If we ’ re competing with each other competing with ourselves to get better then that’s what will get us to where we need to be ”

The Red will have its first chance to “ come to compete ” against Villanova at 1 p m Saturday at Schoellkopf Field, as it looks to achieve its toughest “three of anything” test

“We believe our squad has tremendous speed and athleticism,” Graap said “We hope to bring discipline and competitiveness to every aspect of our 2018 season ”

Senior night | The Red will celebrate its five seniors Saturday in its final regular season home game

Icers Aim to Clinch Undefeated Ivy Season

By RAPHY GENDLER Sun Staff Writer

When they’re honored at their final regular season home game against Yale Saturday, the Cornell men ’ s hockey team ’ s five seniors will hope their “real senior night” is many weeks away after a long playoff run

“For a Cornell hockey player the senior night really is playoffs,” said head coach

Mike Schafer ’86 “That’s your senior night And you want to go out of here as a senior in the playoffs as a winner ”

With a chance to earn its first unbeaten slate of Ivy League games since 1996 Schafer’s first year as head coach the No 4 Red (20-3-2, 14-2-2 ECAC) hosts Brown (6-15-4, 5-12-1) Friday and Yale (13-11-1, 8-9-1) Saturday as it looks to maintain its position atop the ECAC standings Cornell has a four-point lead over Clarkson with four games remaining

On Saturday against the Bulldogs, Cornell can avenge its lone Ivy tie of the season The Red rallied from a two-goal deficit to take a late 3-2 lead at Yale Jan 12, only for the hosts to tie the game with a fluky extraattacker goal in the final minute

“They basically stole that tie from us, ” said senior forward and captain Alex Rauter “We were up for a lot of that game, we were dominating that game We all were maybe a little too calm [and] that extra attacker goal caught a lot of people by surprise, so we’ll be out for revenge on Saturday ”

Yale enters the game in the midst of a four-game winning streak and is led offensively by junior forward Joe Snively, whose 15 goals are fifth-most in the ECAC

The Bulldogs, currently in a three-way tie for sixth in the conference, are four points away from the top four Brown, meanwhile, is 10th in the conference and has struggled offensively The Bears have scored just 34 goals in 18 ECAC games, fewest in the conference

In taking on Ivy foes, Cornell hopes to reverse a recent goal-scoring drought After a 2-1 upset loss to RPI Feb 3, the Red scored just one total goal against Clarkson and St Lawrence But Schafer said the lack of scoring doesn’t merit panic

“If you ’ re not producing offensive chances then you start to get really worried,” Schafer said “When it’s a situation where you ’ re getting chances and you ’ re not capitalizing, it’s about just continuing to follow the process of creating those offensive chances Some nights they’re going to go in, some nights they’re not ”

Thanks to Cornell’s best-in-the-nation defense, the Red picked up three points on the road last weekend, and will look to continue the defensive domination at home

“If you ’ re going to win, you ’ ve got to play great defense, because defense is something that doesn’t take a break,” Schafer said “It’s something that you can bring every night and you know that you can control a lot of your own destiny ”

“[Defense has] always been a pride of our team I think the offense had a lot of chances this weekend [but] couldn’t really find the net, ” said senior forward Dwyer Tschantz “I think that will come We’ve scored a lot of goals this year I don’t see us thinking it’s a problem right now ” The fourth line of Tschantz, senior Jared

Fiegl and junior Beau Starrett has been a welcome offensive resurgence for the Red Fiegl, recovering from the flu, has three goals in four games Tschantz has found himself in the lineup regularly as injuries have plagued the team

“We’ve just been moving our feet down low and getting to the net, ” Tschantz said “[Fiegl’s] a bull down low and I kind of like to play the same way: jam the net front and get pucks to the net ” Thanks largely to the play of freshman goaltender Matt Galajda, named the NCAA First Star of the Week after the North Country trip, the Red earned a 0-0 tie with Clarkson and edged out a 1-0 win at St Lawrence

“Throughout the course of a season you ’ re definitely going to go through ebbs and flows as far as your offense is concerned,” Schafer said of his team ’ s scoring drought “Scoring is confidence We talked a lot about continuing to have the same kind of offensive habits that produce goals ”

Although they hope the real senior night is many weeks away, the significance of a final regular season game at Lynah isn’t lost on the five Cornell seniors

“The real senior night’s after the first round of playoffs, but the celebration is really nice to be recognized,” Rauter said “All the hard work and everything we ’ ve done, it’s nice to be with the team and celebrate that way ” Cornell takes on Brown at 7 p m Friday and Yale at 7 p m Saturday

Gendler can be reached at rgendler@cornellsun com

With Brother by His Side, Max Dean Embarks on Cornell Career

Following familial tradition, freshman forges his own path

By JACK KANTOR

The Dean surname holds substantial weight on East Hill

Two-time NCAA Champion

Four-time All-American Gabe

Dean ’17 exhibited dominance at 184 pounds in collegiate wrestling and won ’ t be forgotten soon

Gabe helped define part of Cornell wrestling’s dominance in recent years, but he has now graduated And while he remains at the Friedman Wrestling Center as an assistant coach, he won ’ t be the Dean that fans of Cornell wrestling will be focusing on going forward

Stepping right in and taking Gabe’s place on the Cornell wrestling roster at 184 is his younger brother, freshman No 11 Max Dean And as Gabe describes it, “It’s Max’s path now ”

Max has set himself apart early, sporting 25 wins including 13 bonus point victories and just two losses, a more than impressive record for a freshman

But despite his improbable rookie success, Max has large shoes to fill, and people have continually compared him to his older brother But to Max, the comparisons are noise and nothing else

“All of that is just a distraction,” Max said “I take all of those things and set it aside It’s a distraction It has nothing to do with going out there and grabbing a guy ’ s leg and taking him down ”

As a two-time Michigan state champion, it’s not such a surprise that Max is finding early success at the collegiate level And yet, many speculate whether Max will follow in Gabe’s footsteps and bring glor y to Cornell wrestling But according to Gabe, his accolades, for now, don’t matter

“I’m done,” Gabe said

“[Max’s] needs are the most important in regards to wrestling and we don’t talk about [comparisons] because he’s a different person than I am, and when you start comparing, it’s a distraction from what he needs to do ”

Max credits head coach Rob

“I’ve always been my own person here and I think that’s part of why I love it here so much.”

F r e s h m a n M a x D e a n

Koll, associate head coach Damion Hahn and assistant coach Mike Grey ’11 for helping establish himself as his own person

“They’ve never made me feel like I was [Gabe’s] little brother,” Max said “I came here and we were going to focus on what I do while wrestling I’ve always been my own person here and I think that’s part of why I love it here so much ”

Max’s struggle against comparisons to his brother did not start on East Hill He’s had to deal with standing in Gabe’s shadow his entire life, long before

joining his brother in Ithaca last year when he started training at the Finger Lakes Wrestling Center Max and Gabe grew up in western Michigan, and both were successful athletes who participated in many of the same activities

No matter where the parallels have been drawn, within or outside of their athletic endeavors, Max and Gabe have been dealing with it their whole lives That’s just the way things are with siblings However, Max has learned to focus on himself

“Part of my growth mentally as a competitor and as a person off the mat was realizing that [Gabe’s] his own person and that I am my own person, ” Max said Gabe, on the other hand, came to Cornell with a fresh slate

a luxury Max has not been able to enjoy The brothers’ father, David Dean, had wrestled for Minnesota in the late 1980’s and was a two-time All American But no Dean family member had wrestled competitively for some time, and certainly not at Cornell, when Gabe started competing in college

“My dad was a good wrestler but that was 100 years ago, ” Gabe joked

“When there’s a big gap like that, you don’t feel it,” he added “But credit to a guy [Max’s] age being able to separate those things and being able to eliminate that type of distraction Especially with it being so fresh ”

The Love of the Game

Growing up with a father who wrestled and later coached in the Big Ten, it was hard for the Dean brothers to avoid the world of wrestling But both Max and Gabe feel that it was always their choice to pursue the sport themselves

However, the two both feel that they were, to an extent, classically conditioned by their father to appreciate the sport to some degree

“You knew that if you were going to wrestling practice you were going to 7-11 after for a Slurpee,” Gabe said

And while it was never truly forced on them, the Dean brothers became grapplers at an early age

“Not taking it real seriously, my dad wasn ’ t a crazy parent by any means, but I was going to practices and rolling around since I can remember,” Max said

The brothers wrestle because they grew to love the sport themselves, not because anybody else their father or otherwise forced them into it

Max believes it’s this independent love for the game that has contributed to the Dean brothers ’ success in their respective wrestling careers

“I think the reason that we find success is that I know I don’t need to wrestle for my dad, I could call my dad and tell him I don’t want to wrestle anymore and he wouldn’t love me any differently,” he said

Max and Gabe never wrestled against each other, being three years apart, and it was maybe for the best

“I think it’s pretty healthy,” Gabe said “I don’t think it’s ever good when you have two broth-

ers who wrestle with each other all the time ”

As a result, they have been able to maintain a great relationship outside the wrestling room, acting as each other’s best friend

Just like any pair of brothers or best friends would do, Max and Gabe off the mat hang out, eat snacks and play video games

Even though Max enjoys playing the hot new video game Fortnite and Gabe prefers Call of Duty, it’s evident the duo enjoys nothing more than simply spending time with each other

“We try to stick to the rules,” Gabe said “ We leave the wrestling in here, and be goofballs and be regular kids outside the wrestling room ”

Max was more than happy to have his brother around when he started his new college life 10 hours away from Michigan

“I definitely believe in myself as a person, but it definitely helped,” Max said “As I said, I just love hanging out with him ” And Gabe was more than happy to have his younger brother join him on the hill

“[It’s] like Christmas every day having your brother out here; [it’s] phenomenal,” Gabe added

Max’s Time to Shine

Gabe’s achievements will go down in the Cornell wrestling and athletics history His name will forever hang in the rafters

But as Gabe and the rest of the program will tell you, it’s Max’s time to shine And no one in Max’s corner is a more ardent supporter of him than his older brother

“[It’s] like Christmas every day having your brother out here; [it’s] phenomenal ” G a b e D e a n ’ 1 7 See DEAN page 15